Constellation, le dépôt institutionnel de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Résumé

This research provides empirical support to the Personality Organization Diagnostic Form (PODF; Diguer & Normandin, 1996), which is a measure that operationalizes Kernberg's (1996) model of personality organizations. The goals of this study were to examine the PODF's interrater reliability and validity. Results confirmed that reliability ranged from good to excellent. Factor analysis showed that items tended to regroup according to the model, which contributes to the validity of the PODF. Internal consistency, reliability, and correlations with psychiatric severity also indicate moderate to good construct validity. Several suggestions are made to improve the measure, such as adding neurotic items and having Likert-scale items.